Hurricane Electric is connected to 75 major exchange points and exchanges traffic directly with more than 3,200 different networks. In Europe, Hurricane Electric needed a high quality carrier with a large European footprint able to deliver low latency 100 GbE wavelengths.

BICS owns and operates 9,000 kilometres of fibre in Europe with a cable landing station in Marseille accessing the Europe India Gateway (EIG) and SEA-ME-WE 4 submarine cable systems. The BICS platform provides Hurricane Electric with a flexible, cost-effective solution to expand its backbone network.

Reid Fishler, director, Carrier Services, Hurricane Electric said, “BICS’ PEN 2.0 is the perfect solution to enable us to deploy high capacity circuits between different European cities. With this agreement in place our customers will benefit from faster Internet connections between Hurricane Electric’s core routers in Europe.”

Johan Wouters, SVP Capacity Business Management, BICS said, “Since the end of 2012 our pan-European Network has been 100GbE ready. It allows our customers to expand their IP backbone network and interconnect bandwidth intensive sites in a fully managed service model. A large range of extra features such as protection, rerouting options, upgrades and restoration, and liquid bandwidth render our solution both flexible and robust.”